I have been seeing account after account of large families that were decimated by a wave of Covid 19 that they caught at a summer family gathering.

You don't know if you have a mild case of Covid 19, one that can kill the older members of your family.   Grandparents, aunts and uncles .......

You don't know if you have a mild case of Covid 19, one that can kill the youngest members of your family, or curse them with secondary heart symptoms that will last their lifetime.

Coochi Coo Kills  .......

You can try to enforce 6 foot spacing and masks, but the hard fact is that the teenagers take their masks off as soon as they are out of sight and teens tend to do stupid stuff at EVERY family gathering.

The very structure of Thanksgiving itself is deadly for Covid 19.

Don't kill the ones you love.

At 69 yrs old, my biggest problem is reminding myself that *I* am in the the more vulnerable population and that *I* need to be careful. Jeesh, when did I get old? My kids have no problem reminding me. They both work in retail environments where they are exposed to lots of people in a day. When we interact, they are careful to keep their distance.

Four people I know have contracted Covid-19.  They were all about my age, early to mid seventies, three died and the fourth, who was a very close friend since we were 17 yrs., old ended up in a nursing home after being hospitalized twice for it.  They were all in good health.  The one who went to the nursing home will not be returning home, too much brain damage.

I'm not ready to go yet. I've got too many projects to finish and some new ones I would like to start.  Not to mention responsibilities. So I am staying well isolated and that has insulted a few people who went ahead and planned fairly large gatherings.  Too bad.